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I have had terrible experiences with my Sears Air compressor. It is a non Oiled type. It is forever eating the connecting rod. After about 2 hours worth of use, when it was new it chewed up the connecting rod, and about 6 other pieces. Unfortunately I had already had it for a year and it was out of warranty. (long story there). I fixed it two more times and it just keeps breaking. Once when I was under my car and one other time when I was on my roof using my nail gun with about 1/2 the roof to go. When I pulled the motor and pump apart I could see why, real cheap construction. The pump assy is held together with 1 small screw into real cheap conneting rod assy. Holding a new connecting rod, It feels like you could snap it in half with your hands.
One other thing the non oiled types are very very noisy.
I just bought a 1 year old speedaire oiled pump type from a cabinet maker.
Amazingly quiet and runs my impact wrenches and drills etc. very nicely.
I think sears does make some oiled type. I would only look at them if you look in sears. Northern tool has some good ones. Grainger sells the Speedaire. The oiled ones will last forever if taken care of. My father in law has one as big as small car in his shop that has to be 40 years old and still runs like a top.
It's too bad about the sears ones. They have some good sized ones with enough cfm to run tools at reasonable prices, but the quality just doesn't seem to be there. Plus the Noise!
Anyway enough ranting. Good luck in your search.
Eric.
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